curiosity

if anyone asks what your five-year plan is, say something honest: to still be curious. because curiosity will take you farther than ambition ever could. curiosity asks questions even when it has no answers. curiosity keeps you humble when the world insists you have a direction. curiosity — not control — is what actually keeps you moving.

that care is genuine, but underneath it sits a truth no amount of thinking can undo. the point of life isn’t to make the perfect decision. it’s simply to make one. period. to trust your gut and act from the rawest place inside you. to move before you’ve thought it over for ten hours, made three lists, and consulted every available source.

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just fuck around and find out.”

i pause. and then i start laughing. because she’s right.

running a scenario to death in my head doesn’t serve me at all. it’ll never tell me how something is actually going to unfold. that version isn’t real, it’s just imagination disguised as preparation. and the more i think about doing something, the more i’m not... See more

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that if I’m avoiding a task, I can usually work up the momentum I need to approach it if I first spend time doing what I actually want to do.

sometimes i think we’re all a little scared of stillness because it doesn’t declare its value. it doesn’t look productive. you can’t post it. it doesn’t come with a dopamine spike or a pat on the back. but that’s precisely why it’s necessary. stillness is where the data of your life finally turns into meaning.

i’ve been experimenting with what i call “deliberate inefficiency.” no timers. no productivity playlists. no tracking. just letting things take the time they take. folding laundry without a podcast. making coffee without answering emails. sitting in silence that doesn’t immediately demand to be useful. it feels awkward at first — like you’ve... See more

when you stop trying to optimize your day, time changes texture. hours stop feeling like something to spend and start feeling like something to inhabit. you realize that most of your stress wasn’t from being busy — it was from constantly narrating your own busyness. the brain loves to document improvement. but the soul, for lack of a better word,... See more

and the irony is that most of us weren’t like this as kids. we didn’t optimize playtime; we didn’t schedule curiosity. we just wandered until something felt interesting. maybe that’s what adulthood quietly kills — the ability to do something without folding it into a bigger plan. optimization feeds the illusion of progress, but often it just strips... See more

we tend to go through a type of exhaustion that doesn’t come from overwork, but from working without wonder. it’s the fatigue that sets in when you’re chasing achievement for its own sake — when everything you do is measured against how it looks, what it yields, or how quickly it moves you forward